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To: RnMomof7

I am going to take your answer as no, we do not have to keep the law of circumcision, dietary laws and Temple sacrifices. If Jesus can relieve of these laws he can do so also of the prohibition against blood in the reception of the Eucharist.


236 posted on 06/24/2015 7:25:00 PM PDT by Petrosius
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To: Petrosius
Have you ever even tried to read Acts 15?

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

237 posted on 06/24/2015 9:28:08 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: Petrosius
I am going to take your answer as no, we do not have to keep the law of circumcision, dietary laws and Temple sacrifices.

WE?

Too WHOM were these LAWS supposed to APPLY to?

240 posted on 06/25/2015 3:03:38 AM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Petrosius
I am going to take your answer as no, we do not have to keep the law of circumcision, dietary laws and Temple sacrifices. If Jesus can relieve of these laws he can do so also of the prohibition against blood in the reception of the Eucharist.

But He DIDN'T!!

Here, it's in this account of the very first church council. It seemed good to the apostles AND THE HOLY SPIRIT, to reiterate the prohibition against eating blood.

Acts 15:12-29 And all the assembly fell silent, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul as they related what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles. After they finished speaking, James replied, “Brothers, listen to me. Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for his name. And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written,

“‘After this I will return, and I will rebuild the tent of David that has fallen; I will rebuild its ruins, and I will restore it, that the remnant of mankind may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who makes these things known from of old.’

Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God, but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood. For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, for he is read every Sabbath in the synagogues.”

Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers, with the following letter:

“The brothers, both the apostles and the elders, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greetings. Since we have heard that some persons have gone out from us and troubled you with words, unsettling your minds, although we gave them no instructions, it has seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who themselves will tell you the same things by word of mouth. For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements: that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”

241 posted on 06/25/2015 5:13:30 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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